Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday October 14, 2019 @04:54PM
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> To make an icon on the favorites bar in gnome, you have to edit a .desktop text file! Madness.
.desktop files are about the dumbest damn thing ever. Why is the 'category' of an application, which pretty much every menu interprets as its sub-folder location, determined here [0]? Why is there absolutely no ability whatsoever to set a relative path to an icon file [1]? It's like there were designed by someone who had never used a GUI before and had one described to him while writing the spec [0].
[0] Given other choices made by FreeDesktop.org, this might actually be true.
.desktop files are about the dumbest damn thing ever. Why is the 'category' of an application, which pretty much every menu interprets as its sub-folder location, determined here [0]? Why is there absolutely no ability whatsoever to set a relative path to an icon file [1]? It's like there were designed by someone who had never used a GUI before and had one described to him while writing the spec [0].
[0] Given other choices made by FreeDesktop.org, this might actually be true.